Question

Quarrying can become a major environmental concern. Give reasons.

Answer 1

Quarrying is a major environmental concern:-

• Quarrying is the process of cutting or grinding stone into smaller pieces to obtain stone or other materials.
• Quarrying creates a lot of dust which is harmful to human health.
• Quarrying adds heavy amounts of suspended particulate matter into the environment that causes air pollution.
• After finishing the quarrying process the land at the site of quarrying is abandoned that causes land degradation.
• Quarrying is done under proper jurisdiction to avoid the degradation of environment.